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Pictured: Marianna Simnett, Kate Cooper, Anne Haaning and Lucy CloutToday marks the beginning of the second edition of the Jerwood/Film and Video Umbrella Awards, this year entitled What Will They See Of Me? Founded with the aim of supporting moving-image artists in the first five years of their practice, each year four shortlisted artists are awarded a £4000 bursary to enable them to develop a pilot work. For 2014 the four female finalists, Anne Haaning, Kate Cooper, Marianna Simnett and Lucy Clout, have explored themes of identity, visibility and posterity in accordance with the award’s theme, resulting in four pieces which will be exhibited simultaneously at the Jerwood Space in London and the Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow.
As a result of these exhibitions two of the finalists will be chosen to receive a further £20,000 commission, allowing them to develop their pilots into expanded works. These fully formed pieces will then be exhibited again in 2015. Scroll down to read more about the shortlisted pieces and watch exclusive excerpts made by the artists for Bazaar.Anne HaaningKhoiSan Medicine
2014
Full length: 12 minutes, 19 seconds
With an MA in architecture already under her belt, Anne Haaning will graduate with an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths this summer. Her piece draws on anthropological studies of the Khoisan peoples of southern Africa, who believe that wind is a divine force, in order to explore the impact the digital realm is having on our personal identities, the fluid, infecting nature of online information and the lasting nature of our online personas.Kate Cooper

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Unknown Species in Full Resolution
2014
Full length: 3 minutes, 48 seconds
Kate Cooper is a Central Saint Martins graduate and co-founder of London-based art initiative Auto Italia. She was recently selected as the winner of the Ernst Schering Foundation Art Award and has exhibited internationally including at the Tate Modern and ICA. Cooper's entry for the JFVU award evokes images of advertising in order to highlight the changing relationship we have with our bodies and our often all-consuming concern with projecting the ‘correct’ public image of ourselves.Marianna Simnett

The Udder
2014
Full length: 15 minutes, 30 seconds
Marianna Simnett graduated from the Slade School of Art with an MA in Fine Art Media in 2013 and has since exhibited in group shows in the UK and internationally. In her film, Marianna uses the udder of the title as a site to explore the double-edged sword of childhood memories and adult desires which it symbolises. Shot on a robotic dairy farm in rural Sussex, and using performances from the people who work there, the film also investigates the way we are acquiescing to the ever increasing encroachment of technology on our bodies.Lucy CloutThe Extra’s Ever-Moving Lips
2014
Full length: 7 minutes, 40 seconds
Lucy Clout graduated with an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art in 2009 and has recently held solo shows at the International Project Space, Birmingham and Limoncello, London. For her JFVU entry, Clout looked at the phenomenon of television extras – those who are supposed to be seen but not noticed, speak but not heard. By isolating a moment from an Australian soap opera in which the extra momentarily shines through, and enlisting a lip-reader to help her understand what is being said, Clout throws light on the background noise of contemporary life discovering that it is in these moments of everyday throwaway chatter we are truly ourselves.What Will They See Of Me?, 12 March - 27 April, Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, London SE1 0LN and 4-21 April, CCA: Centre for Contemporary Art, GlasgowVisit whatwilltheyseeofme.org.uk

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